Thread by @fortelabs

1/ I've realized there's a really deep way of thinking about ideas that I think you have to have to be able to curate ideas of others, combine them together, and build on them with your own work

I'd like help putting a name to this or references to existing terms

2/ It's basically something like "idea concreteness" – that ideas are discrete, definite things with a "real" shape and structure. They aren't just "someone's opinion." You can try to "build" one idea off another and it can NOT work

3/ I think it's the opposite of "everything is relative" somehow. You can try to connect different ideas together, and some will work better than others. As in, objectively better, not just subjectively

4/ But it's also not that there is an "absolute truth" out there that you just have to uncover and document. There is a skill/taste element of figuring out how they are related, but not pure skill/taste. Some structures show better taste than others

5/ One result of being able to think this way is you see ideas as "blocks" that can be assembled into larger "idea structures." BUT crucially, you don't have to create all the blocks yourself. You can "borrow" pre-formed blocks from others and it works just as well

6/ What is this philosophy/attitude called? Any references?

Any help @vgr? I think I learned this from you